River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-10-06

Nish Vitidage, miner in the Tower,
Mimi, mines and two daughters lost their
lives by the burning of the house in TIE
night. When the father awoke his sleeping
room was filed with smoke to suffocation |
He hastily aroused his wife who made her
escape with a little child. Going TO II e
room where his two daughters, aged eight
and eleven years, were sleeping, he tossed
one of them through the window. as he
supposed. but in reality the child was
thrown against the wall and remained in
the room to meet her death. The father
left the house with the other girl who was
dead before he reached the open air. The
climax OF the tragedy was the death of the
father himself
Mrs. Alexander Mitchell of Mi!wau-
kee has gone to California, to reside there
permanently, il is said. Unpleasantness
has occurred, it is reported between Mrs.
Mitchell and her son in reg rd TO the settle
ment OF the vast property left by Mr..
Mitchell. The abandonment and proposed
sale OF the homestead on Grand avenue by
John l.. Mitchell has decided his mother, Il
is said, 10 leave that city. Mrs Mitchell
did not receive, as stated 100000 for her
life tenure of the homestead but is to get
from her son John l.. Mitchell $50. 600 a year
as long as she lives as a consideration so far
as concerns this portion of her dead hus-
bands estate
Rather singular thing, in legal practice,
occurred on the Milwaukee bound train be
tween Fennimore and Montfort, Wis. Ii
was the opening day of the Iowa county,
Wis, circuit court, Judge George Clement
son presiding, and the train was crowded
with lawyers, witnesses and jurors going TO
the county seat at Dodgeville. Among the
passengers were Judges Clementson and
Evans Their purpose was to argue at
Dodgeville a motion that had been set for a
hearing in chambers at Lancaster, but
which had.beenpostponed. The accommodating
Judge listened TO the argument OF the coun-
sci, and before Montfort was reached gave
the decision in the case, which was adverse
to the motion.
The annual session of the general
assembly Knights of Labor began at
Minneapolis, Mimi, on the Bird, about $50
delegates then being present. General
Master Workman Powderly is i'm attend
anee, and two factions appear in the con-
vention, one supporting and one opposing
him. Most of sessions of the assembly are
secret. An open session was held and
Mayor Ames delivered an address of
welcome to the city, which was RESPONDED
to by w. l.. Griffith of Chicago; short adj
dresses We're also made by Ralph Beaumont
and q, III. Carlton. The sessions are held
in the Washington rink which is handsome
ly decorated.
At Metz, NJ Schnaeble, Jr., who
was arrested on the Goth ult,, by the
German authorities for crossing the frontier
and affixing reasonable placard, bearing
the tri-colors upon tree near the roadway,
has been sentenced to three weeks i'm
prisonment and fine of 20 marks. The
youth expressed sorrow for his action.
The court said it considered Schnaebele, at
the time he committed the offense. was
conscious that il was of a punishable
nature, but admitted that his age (l6),
should be considered in extenuatiOn, and
decreed that the time he has already spent
in prison should be credited against his
sentence.
Rufus A. Simmons, for 80 years a
resident of Hastings, Mimi, suicided by
hanging himself in his barn. He leaves a
wife, four daughters and one son. his age
was 81 years. He left two letters-one to
his boy Walter, giving him parental advice,
and wishing him goodbye, and the other
to his son-in-law, +. w. Oliver, requesting
him to settle up his estate, returning thanks
for kind acts and giving orders in regard to
his burial. Financial perplexities caused
the act, the eliminating incident being a
sheritf's levy upon his personal property
at the suit of Norwalk, Ohio, creditor.
The National Reserve Life Insurance
Company, of Sioux City, Iowa, has ceased
to do business, The business, what there is
of it, has been turned over to the Mutual
| Benefit Company, of MarshalltOwn, Iowa.
The company was organized several years
/ ago by j. II. Smoke, but has never been a
success. The membership was small and
/ the running expenses large. OF late there
/ has been considerable dissatisfaction among
the members al the way things were going,
and finally the affairs were wound up and
operations ceased.
The first report of Z. Nagle, receiver
for the bankrupt, cattle firm of Swarz Bros.
was filed with Chief Justice McGinnis, at
| Cheyenne, Wyo. 1t places the resources of
the firm aud its individual members at
| $SyS, SO, with liabilities at s. 1893 Re.
| sources over liabilities, $50 $50. The per-
sonal property of the firm, consisting of
horses, wagons and furniture, is not includ-
ed in the receivers report. IL is now
| thought that if forced sales of the resources
| are not made, that the creditors of the firm
will be paid in full.
At Deer Lodge, Mont. John A. Mill
Ter, shot his wife dead and then himself.
Mrs. Miller was doing general homework at
the Scott house, where she had been for
twelve days. Miller was a drinking and
/ gambling man, whom she had supported to
great extent for years by doing washing,
| and month ago she felt compelled to
| separate from him, and had gone to work
as stated. He was very drunk the night
before and made threats that he would do
as he subsequently did, butt was believed
to be whisky talk.
Fire destroyed the A, j, Sawyer ell
evator at Wheatland, Oak The fire start
ed in the coupola at 1890, and one hour
later the bull ling fell in. Thirty thousand
bushels of wheat burned. The Northern
| Pacific depot and the Presbyterian church
and parsonage all had close calls, and were
only saved by the heroic efforts of the
| bucket brigade. There was little or no
| wind at the time. This alone saved the
whole town from destruction. Insurance
not known. j. NJ. Delanee, Sawyer's agent,
received quite severe burn on the arm
Acting Secretary Muldrow has rem
dered decision in tie case of Dayton VS..
Dayton involving a quarter section of land
now within the town limits OF Aberdeen,
| Oak. The decision afiirms that Of Commits
| sioner Sparks, and holds that the contest of
each of the Daytons was speculative and
not initiated in good faith. The secretary
directs that the land be held in reservation
! for sixty days H. order that the city of
Aberdeen may present an application to
enter the land under the townsite law.
Commander-in-ch G. A. r., Judge
John p. Rea, upon his return home to Min
neapolis was given most handsome recep-
| ton, a procession OF 3,O00 largely q. A. r.
men. escorting him TO the Exposition build
ing. where Mayor Ames led in the speech
making followed by Judge Rea, Col. Hicks,
Maj. Henderson, Judge Fish and DIR.
| Murphy, Mai. Drake and Col. j. II. David
son of st. Paul Ii was a very happy and
altogether eloquent occasion.
A few days since, In the township of
Maplewood, Mimi, Louis Rasmussen met
with horrible accident while at work
with threshiDg crew. In stepping from a
| stack he encountered pointed stake, which
ran through his body on one side, entering
in front below the waist, passing upward
and protruding from the back of the
/ shoulder. DIR. Rose, of Pelican Rapids, has
been attending him and reports that the
vital parts having escaped injury, the
patient, strange to say, is likely to recover.
Four miles from Worthington, MINI.
one freight train ran into the rear of a for
ward one, destroying the caboose aud sew
/ eral cars OF the forward train, setting them
on fire and burning them up. The wood
work of the engine was also burned. One
car of lumber besides the oaboose was en-
tirely burned. Ths accident was caused by
the engineer of the rear train not being able
/ to see through the smoke caused by the
| burning grass on the prairie.
1t is reported from Fort Assinaboine,
Mont, that Privates William Cosgrove and
James Burke, of Company B., Twentieth
| infantry, who have been in camp at Sweet
| Grass Hills since last Spring, became